tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52239056637546226152012-01-21T07:52:10.958-08:00Tropical Plant Blog from El Arish Tropical Exotics. Featuring Heliconias, Gingers, Costus, Cordylines, Brugmansia and more from the Largest Online Tropical Exotic Plant Nursery in Australia. Open by appointment only, come find us on Google Maps.ion e-businesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13357098548273356490noreply@blogger.comBlogger281100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223905663754622615.post-79840954390278311252011-08-02T17:12:00.000-07:002011-08-02T17:12:40.450-07:00

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Here's a couple of links to great Landline videos on Biological Farming. Remember you can do this on a smaller scale in your own garden. Biological Farming Part one Biological Farming Part two

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Many of the beautiful tropical plants that we grow in our gardens as ornamentals hail from far away exotic lands. In the areas where they are native, their beauty is often second to their value as a source of food and medicine. We’ve just grouped our edibles together on the website as Incredible Edible Tropicals. We will be expanding it in the spring to include other edible ornamentals for the

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Please help us get back to business by voting for El Arish Tropical Exotics in the Suncorp Back to Business grant scheme. We really, really need your help and anyone can vote :) Vote here! https://suncorpbacktobusiness.com.au/ Thank You!!! Ann and Scott

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We decided that if Yasi was a cat 3 or less to stay but when she bumped up to a very large 5 we decided to bail. We built our own house and were pretty sure it would be fine but in the rainforest with so many flying branches and falling trees it's hard to know for sure. Our friend had graciously offered to house us in his underground bunker in South Johnstone. Ross has a beautiful

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We supply heliconias, gingers,cordylines to landscapers and landscape architects in Tropical Queensland but can also supply to other states in Australia. Our stock is strong healthy and of the highest quality available. Due to our unique rainforest environment we can grow plants in a lot more sun. We also grow using Biological Farming techniques which mean our plants are always well nourished

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We would like to thank all of our clients for their support, especially our repeat customers. You make all of the digging and tramping around in the mud worthwhile. It is an honour and a privilege that you depend on us for advice, trust our judgement and continuously find more areas in your gardens to plant! It’s a blessing for our whole family to be involved in something as positive as helping

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  Clients often ask us where in Cairns they can purchase our plants. In addition to the Mission Beach Monster Markets we attend several of the Cairns plant festivals. The third annual Tropical Garden Fair will be held at Cannon Park Racecourse on July 11th 2010. There will be displays by local growers and businesses and numerous varieties of locally grown plants will be on sale including

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Our nursery is packed with gorgeous healthy potted heliconias and gingers in pots. We are now offering potted plants that can be shipped throughout the east coast of Australia. Our carrier requires a minimum of 5 trays which generally works out to be between 25 and 30 plants.  If you are a landscaper, home gardener or owner of a motel/caravan park looking for a high quality plants this is

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“El Arish Exotics” Our nursery is El Arish Tropical Exotics and not El Arish Exotics. Another nursery in the township of El Arish is now advertising themselves as “El Arish Exotics” This has led to some confusion amongst our customers. El Arish Tropical Exotics is open by appointment (call us on 40685 058) only and directions can be found on google maps. If you are unsure please ask for Scott

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In the garden nothing screams tropical like heliconias. There huge banana like leaves and striking inflorescence stop admirers in their tracks. Heliconias are endemic to Mexico, Central/South America and the Caribbean. There is also another small group found in the Old World Tropics from Samoa to Indonesia. The old world heliconias have green bracts and are pollinated at night by bats in

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If you are like me you would rather be out in the garden or having bamboo strips inserted under your fingernails than trying to remember your high school chemistry. Phrases like “cation exchange capacity”, “cations and anions” and “bric” give you an instant headache and leave you running for aspirin, a good glass of red and if you’re lucky a pack of TimTams. So for me to put you (and me!) through

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I've just added a section on our website called "Heliconias for Brisbane" It is specifically meant for Brisbane growers that are either new to growing heliconias or have less than perfect conditions for heliconias. In a previous article we discussed conditions that heliconias like, in this article I'd like to expand on that a bit for Brisbane gardeners. Most people are aware that the majority

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Tapeinochilos are rhizomatous herbs from New Guinea, Indonesia, Australia and the Solomon Islands. The flowers can be either borne basally or terminally depending on the species. The stems are bamboo like varying from banded brown and white as with T.xdensum to vivid red as with T. moluccan. The day flowers peak out of hard coned bracts that vary in color from black to red to yellow.T. ananassae

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The majority of plants we sell do best in well drained rich soil. Although many experienced tropical gardeners are aware of this there are a few that are unsure as to what it means. This article is intended to enlighten our customers on how to get the best results with our plants.As a general rule most heliconias and gingers originate from tropical rainforests. These rainforest soils are

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We enjoy being Wwoof hosts and have hosted many Wwoofers from all over the world. Our children love meeting and interacting with people from different countries and it's been a great way for us to get part time workers on our farm. We have been hosting Wwoofers since 2004 and have helped many Wwoofers obtain their 2nd visa. On average we have 4 people per year completing their entire 88

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Cordylines are a genus with about 15 different species of trees and clumping shrubs, they are native to India, South East Asia, Australia, the Pacific Islands and New Zealand. And are particularly important in Polynesian culture where they were used ceremonially and to wrap food. Cordylines are usually referred to as Juno, intermediate or Kahli leafed. Juno is the wider broad type, Kahli

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Costus are a tropical and subtropical plant with spectacular flower spikes. They are related to gingers and were originally part of the ginger family, but now the Costus species have been reclassified into their own family. It's hard to make generalizations about costus because they are so varied. Some love full sun, some shade, some are cold hardy some are strictly tropical.<!--[if !

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Torch and Tulip Gingers Torch gingers are well known plants in tropical Australia. The colorful inflorescences closely resemble waratahs and they are sometimes called tropical waratah. They are members of the Etlingera family. The majority of the more ornamental varieties come from Malaysia. There they are also used medicinally and in cooking. Red and pink are the most common torches

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Welcome to our new website! We've included a blog so that we can keep you up to date on new and interesting plants that we are adding to our online plant store as well giving you more in depth information about landscaping with tropical plants.In the future we plan to add in depth plant profiles and tropical landscape design articles on a monthly basis so make sure to check back from time to time

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